violation of the public trust, which is what impeachment is all about, does not require criminal activity at all. one can violate their public trust and be clean of criminal law violations and still be impeached. and in this document it does appear as if the president is using the powers of his office for his own personal benefit at the expense of national security. that is military aid going to ukraine as passed by the senate and promised to the ukrainians. i think there are three things here. they relate to one another, but they also are independently viable. there s the legal question. then there s the political debate over impeachment, which you don t have to break the law to be impeached. that s a political decision to be made by the house of representatives. we see already everybody going immediately to their corners here. let s talk a little bit about
word depravity when talking about that aspect of this. if you re the democrats, you think this is very easy to understand. you see this phone call, adam schiff saying it was much more damage thing than he thought it would be when it came out. you hear him using phrases like reciprocity and then going into the favor. at this point in terms of where the public is in terms of impeachment, it s about 37%. it s been as high as 41%. for clinton, it was never higher than 30%. democrats aren t fully on board with impeachment. about a fifth are not where the house is right now in terms of full bore impeachment. so far they haven t been so convincing, democrats in bringing the public along. but they sure have fallen in line. if you look at the beginning of the week it was 137 or something
nefarious, something that at least involves this phone call. nia malika henderson, jeff zeleny and margaret talib. you might have seen on the bottom of your screen there president trump signing some documents with the japanese prime minister. that s the first step in a trade agreement. they re having a meeting now. we may still hear from the president. at that first signing he declined to take questions from reporters. michael zeldon, if you just look at this five-page rough transcript. it s not a verbatim. there are a couple of ellipses in there that make you curious. if you just look at this, the republicans say no there there, no straight-up quid pro quo, go away, leave the president alone. democrats say it s the building block for an impeachment case. impeachment is not a legal issue. if you were a prosecutor, kwowo
questions. if there are actual articles of impeachment, he may have to. he s been pretty skillful on the stand so far. i do think no quid pro quo is going to become the new no collusion. we ll hear it again and again. thanks for joining us. come back tomorrow. we ll continue to track this story. brianna keilar picks up our coverage after a quick break. ju. they took $12.8 billion from big tobacco. juul marketed mango, mint, and menthol flavors, addicting kids to nicotine. five million kids now using e-cigarettes. the fda said juul ignored the law with misleading health claims. now juul is pushing prop c, to overturn san francisco s e-cigarette protections.
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